Cigar-package.



'l. L. STERN.

CIGAR PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.28. 1915.

Patented Aug. 24, 1915.

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IRVING L. STERN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, .ASSIGNOR T HAVANA-AMERICAN (30., OF YORK, .Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CIGAR-PACKAGE.

Application filed April 28, 1915.

, or cigars can be held in such a way as will tend to preserve the aroma and-taste of the tobacco.

As is well known to tobacconists, cigars are extremely sensitive to their environment or immediate surroundings and unless care is taken in the manner in which they are packed for the trade they will deteriorate and lose their peculiar character and flavor I the box 1n regular rows 1n the usual manner.

or take on; an undesirable taste or flavor.

Cedar Wood possesses very desirable qualities for preserving tobacco; its pungent odor blends with the odor of the tobacco and the odor of the cedar seems to have the effect, as it were, of insulating the cigars or tobacco from any bad efiects which may be incidental to their environment. For these and other reasons cedar wood is generally accepted as being the best material of its kind for use as a container for cigars be cause of the fact that it will not afi'ect the character, aromaor quality of the cigars.

It is a common practice to construct cigar boxes of cedar wood, and although thismethod is efficient where the boxes are left closed, the beneficial effects arising are often completely lost from the fact that cigar boxes are often left open on the counter. Furthermore, cedar wood is becoming veryscaroe and hence more expen-' s1ve. I

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a package'in which a film of cedar wood is intimately associated with the cigar and which will give the beneficial effects of the cedar, whether the cigar box be left closed or open; and, furthermore,

to provide an arrangement which willenable: thesebeneficial effects to be brought about very economically, ifdesired.

The invention consists in the general combination of parts and details herein d e scribed, all of which contribute to produce an eflicient cigar package. 7

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24:, 1915.

Serial No. 24,389.

A preferred embodiment of my invention Will be particularly described in the following specification, whilefthe broad scope of my invention will be pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing,Figure l is a perspective, showing an open cigar package embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the cigar package.

Fig. 3 is a perspective of one of the cigars removed from the box.

Referring more particularly to the parts, 1 v i represents a container which may be in the form of an ordinary cedar wood box'such as is commonly used for packing cigars, and this box may be provided if desired with a hinged cover 2 which in Fig. l is'represented in open position.

Within the container or box 1, I provide a plurality of cigars 3 'which may be laid in According to my invention I arrange the interior of the box so that each cigar is substantially surrounded with a film of cedar wood, and I prefer to accomplish this by producing a plurality ofcells having a wall of cedar wood film, and in these cells I place the cigars. In theembodiment of my inven tion illustrated, I accomplish this result by wrapping each cigar with a removable enveloping wrapper 4 of cedar wood film. These wrappers are simply applied to each cigar' as a loose roll, and each roll may be, held in place on its corresponding cigar by any suitable means, preferably by means of a cigar band 5. These wrappers 4 are sulficiently long to protect the full length-of the cigar and preferably are slightly longer than the cigars. When the cigars are packed in a box in this way, each roll or wrapper 4 forms a cell enveloping each cigar on all sides with the cedar wood film. If a box packed with cigars in this way is left open, the scent of the cedar wood remains strongly in the atmosphere around the cigars and this eflect occurs whether the rows of cigars are broken or notby the removal of any of the cigars.

' this is done, my package will still have a strong odor of cedar wood associated with the cigars and remaining with them until the 7 contents of the box is consumed.

The wrappers act as protectors for the cigars and if desired one or more of the cigars may be carried in ones vest pocket with the wrappers left on the cigars. In this way the beneficial effect of the cedar wood continues after the cigar is removed from thebox.

When it is desired to smoke one of the cigars,it'is removed from the box, and the band 51is broken whereupon the wrapper 4 ofthe cedar Wood film is removed.

I do not limit myself'in the practice of my invention to the use of all the features of my invention in combination. Q

It is understood that the embodiment of the invention described is only one of the' many forms or embodiments my invention may take, and I do not wish to be limited in the practice of my invention nor in'my claims to the particular embodiment set forth.

. What I claim and desire to secure by Letters' Patent is:

having a removable enveloping wrapper of cigar having an enveloping wrapper, consist ing of a flexible sheet of cedar wrapped thereabout with its edges overlapping, and v an encircling band for retaining the said wrapper in position upon the cigar.

cigar package comprising an outer.

container having a cellular interior composed of walls of cedar wood film, and. cigars packed in the cells formed by said cellular interior.

5. A cigar package consisting of a box havinga plurality of cigars carried therein, said cigars each havingan individual envelop composed of cedar wood film.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set I my hand irrpresenceof two subscribing witnesses. v s

' IRVING L. STERN.

Witnesses:

J'. ARMSTRONG, WM. H. BLAcK. 

